Tedeschi, Simon (pianist)

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Simon Tedeschi (b. 1 May 1981) is a Sydney-based classical pianist with highly sucessful international career. Simon Tedeschi was born in Sydney, and is the son of Mark Tedeschi QC, the New South Wales Crown Prosecutor and a prominent photographer, and Vivienne Tedeschi, who is the daughter of a Polish Holocaust survivor, Lucy Gershwin. He was the 1998 winner of the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards. He has also won the Open Age Concerto Series and 'Most Outstanding in all Youth Sections' at the IBLA Grand Prize in Italy in 1994, and won the top prize in the keyboard section of the Royal Overseas League Music Competition in London (2002). While working with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Tedeschi went on to be named the Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year and was a recipient of a $10,000 Queen's Trust Overseas Study Award. Tedeschi was awarded a Centenary of Federation Medal by the Prime Minister of Australia and was the recipient of an award from the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia and the Australian Opera Auditions Committee. He has also received a nomination for an ARIA award for Classical Record of the Year. Link to catalogue record.

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